All in Descort

A Flower in the Frost

I wrote this in the form of a French descort; a poem style that consists of different line lengths, stanza lengths, and meters. It avoids rhyme, and has no refrains. I’ve integrated a cornucopia of meter styles and lengths from monometer to heptameter consisting of trochees, iambs, spondees, and pyrrhic feet. Some lines are catalectic. I’ve used an alliteration, and a caesura as well. Finally, the two stanzas differ; the first is a quatrain, the second—a quintain. All to honor the form, and the underlying theme.